I found this in the "legal" section of sourceforge:

Quote: (e) Your Content is not obscene, lewd, lascivious, excessively violent, harassing, libelous or slanderous, does not advocate the violent overthrow of the government of the United States, does not incite, encourage or threaten immediate physical harm against another, does not violate any applicable law, regulation, or rule, and does not violate the privacy or publicity rights of any third party;

Where did the bold part come from? Why is that not included in the other categories? Why only the US?

Due to Patriots Act requiresments?

It is required so that any projects hosted on SourceForge may be used in government software projects. It only mentions the US because SourceForge is hosted in the US.

Doesn't violently overthrowing the goverment count as a violation of "any applicable law, regulation, or rule"?

Quote: Original post by daniel_i_l
Doesn't violently overthrowing the goverment count as a violation of "any applicable law, regulation, or rule"?

"does not advocate", I'm fairly sure the right of free speech protects one's right to say "This Government sucks! It should change or we should force it to change!",... Kind of like what the USA was sort of founded on. But of course that can completely go out the window these days.

Quote: Original post by daniel_i_l
Doesn't violently overthrowing the goverment count as a violation of "any applicable law, regulation, or rule"?

If I recall correctly that's a constitutional right/responsibility in the US.

"advocating violent overthrow of the government" is precisely the thing that must be protected by freedom of speech.

If it said "Does not advocate violence" would that be better? I'm pretty sure "violent" is the key word here.

Does this mean that my Tetris clone can still adocate the silent overthrow of the US government?

Quote: Original post by Dmytry
"advocating violent overthrow of the government" is precisely the thing that must be protected by freedom of speech.

There is freedom of speech and there is private property and ownership, while I have a right to say whatever I want as long as is not defamatory, libelous or slanderous, you have the right of kicking me off your property if I say anything that you won't tolerate while I am a guest there, Sourceforge being privately owned (I am assuming here), can set its own rules for providing its services.

So, if you're into violent government overthrows, then you'll just have to find a different medium (hosting service) to express it.

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